by audiostar » Sun Dec 14, 2008 2:04 pm
I once read an article written by Paul Hourihan which describes what Christmas is all about. I can’t remember what he exactly wrote, but if my memory serves me right this time, he eloquently penned not in so many words that Christ reminds us of how we are always coming back to ourselves in all our actions, dreams, reveries, and lifetimes. At Christmas we contemplate Christ and end up by contemplating ourselves.
He explains that ‘Thou Art That’ is an aphorism representing the core of the Vedanta philosophy: Thou art the Being in all beings, the Soul in all souls. Every heart beating is your own heart… therefore Love your neighbor as yourself. The same Divine encloses both of you. The heart of God is yours. The heart of Christ is yours, and not in a figurative sense, but in an actual sense. He belongs to us. He is us.
I’m reminded of Hourihan’s article last night during the Bikini Bottom (BB)/Wiredstate (WS) Christmas party held at Doc. Tristan Catindig’s (placticman) sprawling property in an exclusive neighborhood in Pasay City. The cup literally runneth over, food overflowed as laughter filled the air. It was a night of sincererity when true friends, strongly bonded by a common passion, meet. Too bad one of our members’ father (Merlin) passed away and the other (Crisdlr) was prevented by his doctors to leave the hospital to be with his BB brothers. Even as we laughed the night merrily away, our prayers were with them. We knew that they wanted nothing more than the spirit of friendship to slay the evils of despair. Francis (vintage dog) nailed it in a short message he addressed to the group of analog die-hards: sharing, compassion and reaching out.
Hourihan says that it is in Christ we see the highest image of what we actually are. He has been called the Savior, but each of us, as well, may be one—prophets, all—on a smaller scale than his, but in principle with no essential difference. He only does on a vast scale what we as spiritual seekers are doing on the stage of our individual lives, burdened as we are with so many conflicts, trials, sufferings, and miseries.
FROM THE BB/Wiredstate BROTHERHOOD: MERRY XMAS TO ALL!!!!!!